Associations to the word «Antonym»

Wiktionary

ANTONYM, noun. (semantics) A word which has the opposite meaning of another, although not necessarily in all its senses.

Dictionary definition

ANTONYM, noun. A word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; "to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed'".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King